"The training instructs Google employees not to invite TVCs to all-hands meetings, team offsites, or the company’s weekly “TGIF” meeting, where employees vote on questions to post to top executives. Indeed, according to two current employees, the company often employs security guards to stand outside all-hands meetings, admitting those whose employee badges are white (FTEs) and keeping TVCs, whose badges are red, outside. The security guards themselves are subcontracted and wear red badges."

When a company says "Don't be evil" it doesn't really mean anything, it turns out.

"We tell ourselves that the industry has to be this way in order to create the amazing games we all love. We tell ourselves this because the alternative is absolutely terrifying. If games could be made without all of the pain, suffering, and abuse… then that means we chose that path ourselves. We chose to suffer not because we had to, but because we wanted to.

Let me be clear: when I say we, I mean the people who lead companies - executives, managers, and senior employees. We are the people most responsible for how our industry functions because we have the power. We make the decisions to hire and fire, we pay the salaries, we teach others the ways we make games, and we exhibit the cultural norms that others follow. We have that responsibility whether or not we want it."

"Given how similar toxic tech culture (and especially Silicon Valley tech culture) is to cult culture, leaving tech often requires something like cult-deprogramming techniques. We found the following steps especially useful for deprogramming ourselves from the cult of tech: recognizing our unconscious beliefs, experimenting with our identity, avoiding people who don’t support us, and making friendships that aren’t dependent on tech."

"Even how this news story has been addressed in the press proves my point. Girls skipping school because they don't have access to tampons or pads should be front page news, not a small paragraph hidden in between pages. What's more: the girls missing school are branded "truants" in the headline, a somewhat misleading, negative term that shouldn't be assigned to unfortunate kids who don't have the basic items needed to get by, but intentional absences from education with no excuse.

How can women and girls have equal opportunities when one of their natural biological processes is – still – treated like a dirty secret?"

"In mid-October Brianna Wu, another independent game developer and co-founder of video game studio Giant Spacekat, saw her home address and other identifying information posted on 8chan as retaliation for mocking Gamergate. Wu then became the target of rape and death threats on Twitter and elsewhere. After contacting police, Wu fled her home with her husband, saying she would not allow the threats to intimidate her into silence.[7][50][51][52][53][54] Wu later announced an US$11,000 reward for any information leading to a conviction for those involved in her harassment, and set up a legal fund to help other game developers who have been harassed online.[55] As of April 2016, Wu was still receiving threats in such volume that she employed full-time staff to document them."

Really good article, basically explaining that lack of diversity in the technology industry is not due to discrimination *against* anyone, but due to *positive discrimination* in favour of people who look like they know what they are doing (i.e. fit the stereotype of computer geek).

The "getting away with it because you create an impression of knowing what you are doing" thing applies throughout life, though. People operate on trust and are more likely to trust someone if they look like they know what they are doing, whether they look like they know what they are doing because they actually do or whether they look like they know what they are doing through pure coincidence.